Cherry Blossom Scented Icebox Cookies
- 70 grams Cake flour
- 20 grams Almond powder
- 50 grams Butter
- 1 slightly less than 1 pinch Salt
- 25 grams Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Heavy cream (optional)
- 3 Salted cherry leaves
- 5 Salted cherry blossoms
- 1 Sanding sugar (for coating)
- Prepare the ingredients marked .
- Rinse the salted cherry leaves and blossoms to remove the salt.
- Soak them in water for 30-40 minutes to desalt.
- Pat them well with a paper towel to remove excess water.
- Microwave them on the paper towel at 500w for 4-5 minutes to dry them out.
- If you squeezed the blossoms with your fingers at Step 1, they would feel soft.
- Break the leaves and blossoms up with your fingers until they are a coarse powder.
- This doesn't take time because they are so crispy.
- Cream the butter with a hand mixer, then add the sugar and salt in two batches, mixing well after each addition.
- Add the heavy cream.
- Sift the ingredients marked .
- Add the ingredients marked and into the bowl.
- Fold them in with a spatula.
- Fold until the mixture is still a bit powdery.
- The dough just comes together.
- Place the dough on the plastic film.
- Shape the dough into a log about 20 cm long and 3cm in diameter.
- Wrap it with the plastic film and cool in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours, or put in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
- Cut as much as the dough as you plan to bake, and coat with sanding sugar by pressing it in the sides.
- Slice it into 1-1.5cm thickness.
- Bake for about 15 minutes at 170C.
- They are baked.
- You will enjoy the nice aroma of the cherry leaves and blossoms.
- I used this pink sanding sugar for coating.
- My friend's shortbread cookie recipe is"Matcha Shortbread with Sesame Flavor"
- "Japanese Style Shortbread Cookie with Kinako Soybean Powder"
- , "Black Tea Flavor"
- , "Maple Sugar Flavour".
- All of the cookies are delicious.
- Modification from the Shortbread Cookie Recipe Chocolate Version, by Seikomaru,
flour, almond powder, butter, salt, powdered sugar, heavy cream, cherry leaves, cherry blossoms, sanding sugar
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144200-cherry-blossom-scented-icebox-cookies (may not work)